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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the powers and duties of the office of independent ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department."
description: "Relating to the powers and duties of the office of independent ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 1702"
citation: "Texas SB 1702 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family--Juvenile Delinquency (I0360)", "Minors--Juvenile Justice (I0534)", "JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT", "TEXAS (V0846)", "OMBUDSMAN", "OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT -- TJJD (V1230)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dutton", "Whitmire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 49
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76eb3131-1e1c-4cf6-ac85-8618cda7de59"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01700_SB01799/SB 1702.xml"
source_hash: "05bde312aa8f512783118232a820d3f71a75d269acb631b9c00aee4d18bf1760"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---
# Texas SB 1702 (86) — Relating to the powers and duties of the office of independent ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB01702I.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **11627** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dutton — primary (person)
- Whitmire — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2019-03-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Criminal Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-02** Meeting cancelled
- **2019-04-03** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-03** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-04-03** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-03** Left pending in committee
- **2019-04-04** Posting rule suspended
- **2019-04-04** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-04-04** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-08** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-08** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-17** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-17** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-17** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Record vote
- **2019-04-17** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-18** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-29** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-05-16** Committee report distributed
- **2019-05-17** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-05-19** Considered in Calendars
- **2019-05-21** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2019-05-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Record vote
- **2019-05-22** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-05-22** House passage reported
- **2019-05-22** Reported enrolled
- **2019-05-24** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-05-25** Signed in the House
- **2019-05-25** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76eb3131-1e1c-4cf6-ac85-8618cda7de59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).